Defining the Location Policy

 

Topic Last Modified: 2012-06-11

Each location policy contains the following information:

  • Emergency Services Enabled
    When this value is Yes, the client is enabled for E9-1-1. When a client registers, it attempts to acquire a location from the Location Information service and will include the location information as part of an emergency call.
  • Location Required
    This setting is used only when Emergence Services Enabled is set to Yes.

    You can configure the Location Required setting to define the client behavior. Setting the value to No means that the user will not be prompted for a location. Setting the value to Yes means that the user will be prompted for a location, but can dismiss the prompt. Setting the value to Disclaimer means that the user will be prompted for a location and also will be shown a disclaimer if they try to dismiss the prompt. In all cases, the user can continue to use the client.

    Note

    The disclaimer text will not appear if a user manually entered a location before being enabled for E9-1-1. Updates to the disclaimer text will not be viewed by users that have already viewed the disclaimer.

  • Emergency Dial String
    This dial string (less the leading "+", but including any normalization done by the Lync user’s Dial Plan) signifies that a call is an emergency call. The Emergency Dial String results in the client including location and callback information with the call.

    Note

    If your organization does not use an external line access prefix, you do not need to create a corresponding Dial Plan normalization rule that adds a "+" to the 911 string prior to sending the call to Outbound Routing on a Lync pool server; the "+" will be automatically prepended by the Lync client as a result of the location policy. However, if your site uses an external access prefix, you need to add a normalization rule to the applicable Dial Plan policy that strips the external access prefix and adds the "+". For example, if your location uses an external access prefix of 9 and a user dials 9 911 to place an emergency call, the client will use its Dial Plan policy to normalize this to +911 before the dialed number is evaluated by the routes in the caller’s location profile.

  • Emergency Dial String Masks
    A semicolon-separated list of dial strings that is translated into the specified Emergency Dial String. For example, you may want to add 112, which is the emergency service number for most of Europe. A visiting Lync user from Europe may not know that 911 is the U.S. emergency number, but they can dial 112 and get the same result. As with the Emergency Dial String, do not include a "+" before each number, and if you use external line access codes, be sure there are normalization rules in the user’s Dial Plan policy to strip off the access code digit.
  • PSTN Usage
    The name of the PSTN Usage that contains the routing paths that determine which SIP trunk, PSTN gateway, or ELIN gateway emergency calls will go to.

    Note

    Only one usage can be assigned to a location policy. This PSTN Usage overrides the PSTN Usages assigned to the user’s voice policy, but applies only to calls placed to the Emergency Dial String or to one of the Emergency Dial String Masks.

  • Notification URI
    Specifies one or more SIP URIs of the security personnel who receive an instant messaging (IM) notification when an emergency call is placed.
  • Conference URI
    Specifies a direct inward dialing (DID) number (typically, a security desk number) that should be conferenced in when an emergency call is placed.
  • Conference Mode
    Specifies if the conference URI will be conferenced into the emergency call by using one-way or two-way communication.